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May 24, 2012

The time has come... SHOPPING BAN

Yes, my friends.My self-imposed shopping ban has officially
started. {it actually started last night!}I am smack dab in the middle of Day One and I feel fantastic.

After being excited about making it home before
6pm last night, I came straight in the house, upstairs to my bedroom and into my
closet to peel my work clothes off and change into something comfortable to
start dinner.I took one look at my
closet; jam packed with way too many pieces, scarves strewn all over the place,
shoes all over the floor, handbags and clutches almost falling off of the
shelves, my beautiful work of color-coordinating my closet no longer in existence
- and almost had a panic attack.Oh. My.
Goodness., is what I thought.My
shopping is out of control.Where did
all of this crap come from?

And that’s when it dawned on me: I don’t need
to buy another thing for a really really long time. Even though at times it
feels like I have closet full of nothing, refraining from purchasing shoes, belts,
jewelry, handbags, clutches, bathing suits, blazers, pants, tops, sweaters,
ANYTHING {including thrifting!} until my birthday at the end of July just feels
like the right thing to do. So here we go!

After being suggested by my friend C via
twitter last night, I was thinking about doing a “challenge” here on the
blog.A series, if you will - of ways to
shop my own closet, but I don’t think I need to. What a great idea but I don’t think shopping
my closet should be a challenge.It
should be something that I am doing daily.Anyway.And that is what I plan
to do. :)

As a “style blogger”, it is so easy to get
caught up in wanting the latest and greatest.Wanting to click and buy something that looks amazing on one of the beautiful
bloggers that I follow.Creating
wish-lists and posting about my current cravings - feeding into the
self-induced frenzy of HAVING to have something just because it’s cute. Nope,
it stops here. And I will be the first to admit that this won’t be easy.

Admittedly though, I don’t think I spend too
much on shopping for myself. There is no secret that I am a fan of thrifting, which doesn't put too much of a dent in my pocket. I almost always
shop clearance / sales and use a coupon code whenever possible, but those purchases count
and boy do they add up.The money that I
did spend on shopping will now go towards meaningful things.Like our Myrtle Beach family vacation in
July.Or summer-time fun that we can’t
wait to have.Or the sans-kids cruise
that Cory and I plan to take in October.

Who knows? Maybe this ban will last far longer
than July 26th.I would be
thrilled if it does! :)

Have you ever gone on a shopping ban? Any words
of encouragement for me?